Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
THE HIGH OLD STEPPERS.
A Branch ONCE Of the Lime Kiln CI
Wiped Out-A Warming.

A Branch ONCE OF the Lime Kiln Club
Wiped Out-A Warming.
For some time past reports Of a very
unfavorable character lave been received
from "The High Old Steppers," a branch
of the Lime Kiln club established at Nash
vile. The officers and members have
been charged with various derelictions,
and early in May the president was
arrested, convicted and sent up for ninety
days for having q bag of meal in his pos
session which belonged to a grocer half a
mile away. He was no sooner ~incarcer-
ated than the lodge passed a resolution
that the laws of this country were made
by despots, enforced by tyrants and
should be resisted by the bayonet. Its
charter was at once demanded by the
parent club, and Ia giving notice that the
branch no longer existed Brother Gardner
said:
"De High Ole Steppers will step a good
deal lower arter dis, an we shall be keer-
full how we establish fucher branches in
Nashville. When q man in dis kentry
Gums to de conclushun dat de laws ar
agin him he will bar watchin' wild boat
eyes open. He's either bin stealth some
thin or is aclin' to kill off a policeman ON
gineral principles"
Under the head Of communications the
secretary announced a letter from Kurnel
Backspring Johnson, of Selma, Ala. The
kurnel bosses a department in an oil mill
through the week, and breaches to the
best of his lung power on Sundays. He
has invented a new method of settling the
fisheries question between the United
States and Canada, and he wrote that he
should head for Detroit in two weeks to
appear before the Lime Kiln club and
give his method to the world. After de-
l~ivering his address he should remain in
Detroit several weeks to take lessons In
embarrassing, n would be the guest Of
Samuel Shin, for whom he mad conceived
a grand admiration. The reading of the
letter had scarcely been concluded when
Samuel was on his feet, trying h:s hardtg'
to turn pale. Visions of givjvA zip Is
bed and sleeping IN the floor-of his
household expenses increasing ~uue-half-
of calls to loan his ruffled Sunday shirt
and nankeen vest, danced before his eyes
until his tongue could not utter a word.
'Sot down, Brudder Shin sot DOWN.
observed the president. "Dis char not
only realizes what your feelin's ar, but
sympathizes wild you. De seckretary
will write to de kurnel to de effect dat dis
ar our cyclone, smallpox, cholera n
earthquake season, an dat he couldn't
live five minits arter strikin' Detroit. II
dat doan' do we will telegraph him dat a
pusson of his name is wanted here fur
murder"
New York's Tenement System.
Unhapplly, it pays, in coin, to abuse.
Not that philanthropy doesn't pay; 1T
pays, as everybody knows, O per cent: l
believe there is not a case on record or
good tenements that are not a good in
vestment as we'll as a blessing. But bad
tenements pay more, pay so well that 1t is
rumored that rich gentlemen and organi-
cations cannot always resist the tempta-
ton to invest in them. / am told that
some Of the worst tenements pay ~ per
cont, because the landlord can crowd his
tenants in them, refuse to make repairs
and need hire no ~janitor or agent. The
great guns of public opinion are being
slowly turned toward this great evil, and
assuredly will destroy 1t in time. The
press ought to begin by publishing a list
of every tenement in the city and It's
owner.-Aleck Malmaison in The Epoch